Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-06
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE TORIES HOLD FIRM In Refusing A Committee To Dillon. THE PRISONERS IN THE MINE. Gangs Of Rescuers Hard
 At Work. INSURANCE RATES IN BOSTON. The Underwriters Make A
 Reduction.
INSURANCE RATES IN BOSTON.
MAKES AN APPEAL

GLADSTONE MAKES AN APPEAL Fer a Committee to Hear the Times Charge Against DiIlon--But the F Torfes l Have the Votes.
 DILLON, May 5.-In the House of Com 1 mons this afternoon consideration of the question of breach of privilege in the Times Dillon case was resumed. No member rising to speak on the motion of NIT. Lewis that the | conduct of the Times was breach of privi- lege and that the House take notice of it Speaker Peel put before the House the amendment of Sir Edward Clarke, solicitor general, that the House decline to treat the Times publication as breach of privilege. The Parnellites at once challenged division This resulted in vote of 297 in favor of the amendment to 219 against. The amendment thus became a substantive motion and MT. Bradlaugh resumed the debate. MT. Glad
 stone, who on rising was loudly .cheered, moved an amendment that committee be
 appointed to inquire into the charge of will
 ful fasehood made against Mir. Dillon in the
 Times on Monday. He said he did not intend
 to suggest that the inquiry go beyond the
 article referred to. He objected to Lord
 Randolph Churchills calling him the leader
 of the party of separation. He perfectly
 understood why Lord Randolph did not call
 it the party of home rule. There was a future
 before Lord Randolph, in which home rule
 plans might figure convenient to propose.
 (Cheers.) Turning to the question of privi-
 lege hs said it was unfortunate that the gov
 ernnent proposed the present step against an
 Irish member while inficting upon the Irish
 people by means of permanent coercion bill
 brand of perpetual dishonor. Why take
 the case into court of law: Was it certain
 that MT. Dillon would gets verdict whatever
 might be the proof in a case where Parlia-
 ment declared charges against member no
 breach of privilege? Nearly thirty years ago
 he went commissioner to the loniau Isles.
 The Times then said the 1onian assembly
 was committing treason and that the
 commissioner was aiding and abet-
 ting the assembly He thought these
 charges required redress and he took
 the best advice on the subject, but all of his
 advisers said he could not depend upon se
 curing fair verdict. The Irish members
 would be in still more unfavorable position
 in jury trial and it was no wonder they
 preferred the tribunal of the House. The
 House was perfectly competent tribunal
 indeed the only competent one. The pre-
 cedents were all on the side of the appoint
 ment of committee. There was the case of
 Butt ill 1854, when it was held that the ac- cusation that members were hungry for places to which were attached salaries and
 pensions deserved an inquiry. After citing other precedents, in all of which the charges
 were less grave than those brought against MT. Dillon, he challenged
 the government to establish a single prece-
 dent where prosecution had been ordered
 without the House having previously con- demned the act upon which the prosecution was based. He applied to the government to alter their determination, which otherwise might lead to crisis of the most serious and momentous importance. The Irish members, who had been malgned to an enormous extent, asked for a particular course. which the majority refused, forget ting that they were acting against minority representing nation. (Parnellite cheers. ) The government could yet, on the grounds of reason, prudence and precedent, accept his amendment showing the country that they had determined at last to give even the Irish members full justice, even indulgent justice, seeing that their honor and character were at stake. Cheers. ) Sir Richard Webster, attorney general, ad- mitted that Mir. Gladstone had put the issue in the dearest possible way. But the opin- ion of the law officers of the crown was un- shaken. He appealed to the House to affirm that the course proposed by the government was most honorable and adequate one and that a court of law the proper place in which to deal with the charges.